574

LION-HUNTING SCENES

Pal.aikastro, showing the fore-part of a boar charging over rocky oTO
itself belonging to the transitional phase of M. M. Ill—L. M. I a Art '
well stand in relation to fuller scenes in painted relief already existing

Fie. 553. Bull caught in

Net. Clay Seal Impression :

H. Triada.

Fig. 554. Bull breaking through

Fence. Clay Seal Impression :

H. Triada.

palatial walls. The Tiryns fresco,2 indeed, proves that boar-hunting subjects
were in vogue in ' Mycenaean' Greece at a much later date.

Use of On the fresco we see the boar driven into a net, as in Horace's Italy.

:" ' This, too, recalls the capture of the wild bull in a net drawn from tree to

tree across the forest drive, as seen on one of the Vapheio Cups.3 The
subject, indeed, is illustrated on a clay sealing" of Hagia Triada' (Fig. 553),
but there is no evidence here of any relation to the Vapheio composition
such as there seems to be in other intaglio types. As a supplementary
illustration of such scenes, Fig. 554, from a seal impression in the same
Deposit,*' is here added in which a bull butts his way through a fence.

Warriors
attacking
lion.

Lion-hunting Scenes.
Other kindred types already illustrated, such as that on a beac-se.
from the Third Shaft Grave at Mycenae,6 show a warrior attacking a

In the analogous motive on an

aerate

the lion stands bolt upright on h*
In ilia1

reared lion with a short sword.

cylinder from Nestor's Pylos, where

hind legs, the hero who stabs it appears in an identical guise.

below, show a great uniformity wi*J-
Vapheio design, though the net is
On another sealing from the same noa

seqq.,

1 P. o/M., i, p. 676, Fig. 496.

- Rodenwaldt, Tiryns, ii, p.
Fig. 55, PI. XIII and p. 126, No.

■ See P. o/M., iii, opp. p. 17s, Fig. 123 a,
and cf. p. 1S0, Fig. 124.

' I). Levi, Cnluk di Haghia Triada, p. 37,
Fig. Si. A contorted design of a bull of the
lentoid class, Suppl. PI. LV, and Fig. 584,

ling from the same .^^

approaches the net warily (//'•, !'■ 0 ■

' H>., p. 35. F>g- 76' „. 78 . ioi'»led
>P.ofM, iii, p. "5 1*^nia(/i

by a Hellenistic engravei

Fig. 79).

of Kye